welcome back Voluntary disclosure, Goodbye Equitalia. The government is evaluating two new fiscal measures that aim to favor both the public budget and the pockets of taxpayers. The most imminent should be the re-edition of the procedure for the repatriation of capital from abroad, which could reopen its doors as early as July.
"Voluntary disclosure 2 is a concrete hypothesis”, Matteo Renzi had announced in the middle of the month from Bruno Vespa's living room. The new operation should allow for the regularization of capital abroad also for 2015 and 2016, bringing a couple of billion euro into the Treasury, resources that could be used to make it easier to start the income tax relief.
On the collection side, however, the Prime Minister himself said that "by 2018 Equitalia it doesn't get there: the reorganization of this system will provide for a completely different model. We are reorganizing the system so that it is increasingly available to the citizen and not vexatious".
A precise plan does not yet exist, but the idea would be to cancel the Equitalia brand (a company 51% owned by the Revenue Agency and 49% owned by INPS), more than ever disliked by Italians. Obviously, tax bills, penalties and foreclosures could not disappear, also because it is not the body that deals with the collection that imposes them, but the law.
It would therefore simply be a matter of making the public arm that has the task of collecting more flexible. In this regard, the Madia reform of the Public Administration envisages a delegation to the government to reorganize and place the tax agencies under the control of Palazzo Chigi, a novelty that could guarantee greater leeway for the collectors to modulate the procedures according to the characteristics of the individual taxpayers.
